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After Lincoln won the Presidential Election South Carolina and 6 other states left the union to join the Confederate States of America

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Lincoln won the election with 40% of the votes. The South now was the minority with a president that supported antislavery.

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John Brown brother his four sons and son in law to seize the federal arnesnal in Harpers ferry, Virginia. He also hacked people to death with swords.

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Lincolns opponent  for senator was Stephan Douglass. Slavery was a moral issued. Lincoln lost his debates. Compromises over slavery were becoming impossible.

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In 1857, the Supreme Court issued a decision in the Dread Scott case : African Americans were not citizens and the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

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Preston Brooks savagely beat Charles Sumner on the senate floor in retaliation for Sumner's speech against the raid on Lawrence, Kansas. It took three years to recover.

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In 1856, pro slavery settlers from Missouri invaded Lawrence, Kansas and burned houses, looted several homes, and tossed the printing press of an abolitionist newspaper into the Kaw river.The North raised money to replace the printer press. Days after the raid John Brown, his four sons, and his son-in-law dragged 5 men they suspected of supporting slavery and hacked them to death with swords.

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An act passed in 1854 that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolish the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories.

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The Fugitive Slave Act was passed as a part of the compromise of 1850. Many Runaways ran all the way to Canada rather to risk being caught and brought back by their owners.

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Southerners wanted all of the Mexican Cession open to slavery, but Northerners wanted it closed. In late 1849, California applied for admission to the union as a free state, Northerners in congress welcomed California but the Southerners rejected their request. The year ended with Congress tying over California's request

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In 1846 President James Polk sent a bill asking for funds for the war in Mexico. David Wilmot added an amendment to the bill known as the Wilmot Provisco which said that neither slavery or involuntary servitude shall ever exist. Southerners apposed this bill and maintained that Congress had no right to decide whether slave holders could take their property

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Individual slaves rebel by running away to Freedom in the North. These fugitives were often helped by sympathetic people in the North. Slaveholders demanded that congress pass a fugitive slave law to help them recapture their property.

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The compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state and allowed the southwestern territories to be set up without restriction on slavery. The compromise was finally adopted after nine months of debate from Congress, but tensions still remained

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In 1836, Congress voted to table all anti-slavery petitions. This prevented consideration of anti-slavery proposal by John Quincy Adams.

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An agreement created by Congress in 1820. Missouri entered the Union as a slave state, while Maine entered as a free state. North of the 36'30 parallel, slavery was prohibited, except for in Missouri. South of this parallel, Slavery would be allowed